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FOLDING WHEELBARROW.

No 293,007. Patented Feb; 5,1884.

.Zar anti UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

LEVI H. GOODWIN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MOSLER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FOLDING WHEELBARROW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,C07, dated February 5, 18214.

Application filed October 16, 1883. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern.-

citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Wheelbarrows, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention 'is to simplify, cheapen, or otherwise materially improve the construction of wheelbarrows of this class.

With this object in view my invention con sists in a peculiar arrangement of folding the legs and back of the wheelbarrow, so that they are firmly braced when set up in position, and readily folded for shipment.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like parts are represented by similar reference-letters wherever they occur in the different views, Figure 1 is an inverted plan view of my improved wheelbarrow, having the legs and back folded down ready for shipment, and the wheel, which forms no part of my invention, removed. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal vertical section of the wheelbarrow set up for use. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of one of the eyebolts upon which the back board of the wheelbarrow is swiveled.

The side or. handle bars, A, and wheel-bars B, upon which the bottom C of the wheelbarrow is secured, are braced and held together by cross-pieces D and E, bolted underneath the wheelbarrow, as. shown clearly in Fig. 1. The legs F, which are pivoted to the side bars, A, by bolts passing through from the outside, have their upper ends notched to form offsets to receive the ends of thebarsB when thelegs are set as shown in Fig. 2, and their upper ends beveled to permit the legs to fold as seen in Fig. 1. The upper and forward ends of the bars B are beveled to permit the legs to fold down. The legs are supported in position shown in Fig.2 by swinging braces f,

which are secured to the bars A by staples.

The bolt passes through the two bars A and B, uprights g, and is secured to turn in the bars A and B by a lock-nut on their inner ends. The upright pieces 9, entering the eye in the bolts H, are not liable to split, as is the case where the back is pivoted to turn upon bolts passing through both of the uprights. In Fig. 2 is shown a swinging brace, f, which is secured at the upper end by a screw passing through it into the upright g, and at the lower end upon the bars B bylthe bolt which holds the wheel-journal. The staples or rings a, secured in the outside of the bars, are to receive the feet of the removable sides of the wheelbarrow.

The legs and back of the wheelbarrow are folded down for shipment by removing the screw from the lower part of the brace f, and the eyebolts which hold the wh eel in position, thus occupying little space and requiring little time to fold or unfold the wheelbarrow.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a folding wheelbarrow, the combina tion, substantially as specified, of the wheelbars B, beveled at theirforward ends, with the pivoted legs F, having their upper ends beveled, and having offsets, as shown, and the braces f,.whereby the legs are adapted to fold for shipment, and when set up for use to be firmly braced by the ends of the bars B and swinging braces f.

2. In a folding wheelbarrow, the combination, substantially as specified, of the side bars, A, wheel-bars B, with the folding back G, and eyebolts H, the out-er bar, 9, of said back passing through the eyebolt H, and the bolt passing through bars A, upright g, and bar B, and adapted to turn therein to permit the back to be folded down for shipment or turned upfor use.

. LEVI H. GOODWVI N.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. J. IVIURRAY, P. L. XVELTER. 

